[Info-vax] How would you load balance excess webserver traffic between multiple OpenVMS servers?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-01-14, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2021-01-14 kl. 17:19, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> On 1/13/2021 11:38 PM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> that has nothing to do with it tcpware was designed for the vms kernel 
>>> multinet was not.
>> 
>> ????
>> 
>> What OS was Multinet designed for?
>> 
>> I always thought it was a VMS only product.
>> 
>
> TCPIP/Services is a "VMS only product", but it is based on a lot
> of Unix code, as I understand. Don't know about Multinet, but why
> would you write a TCPIP-stack from scratch?

Because in the early days of UCX, Multinet was a product that was good
enough that people were willing to buy it, even if UCX came bundled with
the system.

Bob is right about one thing however, and that is the Multinet command
interface doesn't feel very VMSish. It feels more like a TOPS-10/TOPS-20
interface (based on what little experience I have of those operating
systems.)

Simon.

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